Some time ago I played with Omnigraffle because they were offering free beta licenses. I draw the electronic installation diagram of my living room, check it out.]]>
Some time ago I played with Omnigraffle because they were offering free beta licenses. I draw the electronic installation diagram of my living room, check it out.]]>
I just discovered that it is possible to have multiple identity on one account in Mail. Just add more than one email adress seperated by comas, in the personal email field :
I'm sure all of you Mac users know that, but I just found that out and I'm really happy about it :)
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I have just released a new build of Claws Mail for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). Despite the fact that this release is to be considered beta, I'm quite excited about it. Why?
Up to now, the builds required an X11 server to be installed (usually Apple's X11.App ). Indeed, Claws Mail is a Gtk+ software, originally built for Linux. And until recently, running Gtk+ on Mac OS X required to compile and link against X11.
However, a project finally achieved to port Gtk+ to Mac OS X natively. I'm talking about Imendio's project .
Although I had played with this Gtk+ port in the past (the default demo application ran quite well), I waited for the Port to be a bit more mature.
When I decided to try to build Claws Mail on top of this native Gtk+ port, it took me only one night to do it. The Gtk+ port compiled flawlessly, all I got to do is resolve the usual Mac / Claws compilation issues, as well as the packaging.
So anyway, I'm proud to present the first native Mac OS X version of Claws Mail, available as a nice dmg image here .
Beware, although it works quite well (I'm using it currently), this is to be considere beta. Some bugs and glitches will be addressed soon.
Enjoy.
]]>However I had good reasons, and when you'll see the next version that I'm currently trying to build, you'll see why...
So stay tuned !
]]>So now I use different keys for work and home, and ssh keychain on both.
Next move is to add my work identity to my home session to be able to connect directly to servers at work without having to go through my workstation at work. Without putting my home private id on my machine at work, nor copying my home public id on all servers at work. It should be possible I've heard :)
Anyway, here is briefly how I did it : ssh-keygen (dsa as main key). Then install keychain (see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ and configure it a bit. I added the following script in /etc/profile.d/keychain.sh (gentoo host), and I use the built in keychain on my mac.
#!/bin/bash
# start keychain, with the private keys to be cached
/usr/bin/keychain ~/.ssh/id_dsa
# then load the generated files
for i in ~/.keychain/*-sh*; do
echo "sourcing $i"
source $i
done
I know, I know, everybody is supposed to know everything about ssh, but I'm happy to admit that I learnt 2 or 3 things while setting up everything properly. Besides, how many of you have no passphrase on your ssh key ? :)
]]>Today I just wanted to briefly mention A To G, a small free mac application that simply exports all the adress book data to a csv files that gmail can import.
The problem : my mac is very slow to go to sleep. When you close the lid, the small white light on the front is on, and instead of staying on few dozen of seconds (then starting glowing), it stays on, and take ages (1 minute) before glowing.
What happens exactly ? As soon as the lid is closed, the system starts writing down on the hard drive the content of the memory. That's to provide the ability to wake up even after a power failure. During that time, the white light stays on, and it is recommended that you don't move your laptop (the hard drive is heavily used for writing) When it's done, the white light starts "glowing".
Try it yourself : take your mac (if you don't have one, go buy one now, it's a good way to spend money anyway), close its lid, wait until the whit LED glows, then remove the battery. Plug the battery back in, then open the laptop so that it wakes up, and see the laptop wake up from so-called "Safe Sleep". Here is what it looks like :
For unknown reasons, my mac takes quite a lot of time to dump the content of the RAM to the hard drive. I believe it's a small hardware issue, as reinstalling Mac OS X from scratch didn't help. It's a small step back compared to the powerbook or ibook, which went to sleep very quickly - few seconds - and was pretty reliable. Why are the intel based laptop slower to go to sleep ?
That's because the powerbook and ibook didn't have (afaik) the "Safe Sleep" mode (which is called by normal people "suspend-to-disk") feature.
The good news : we can actually switch back and forth between the different sleep mode on the intel based mac. It works on my macbook Pro, I'm fairly confident that it will work on ibooks too. The comand is called : pmset (here is a link to its man page). I read a nice blog entry explaining how to fiddle with the "Safe Sleep" mode
The solution for lazy people is however to use Smart Sleep.prefpane . It allows you to switch between normal sleep and memory only sleep, and introduce the smart sleep feature, where the system will decide which sleep mode to use depending on the level of battery left. Neat !
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